Little Jolanda's death: no action taken for her parents, her mother taken ill

“For now, there have been no arrest warrants against the parents.” This was explained by the lawyer Ilaria Ruocco, legal representative of the parents of little Jolanda Passariello, 8 months old, who died last night. An investigation into the death has been opened, coordinated by the Nocera prosecutor, Roberto Lenza. “The mother, Imma Monti, is very upset. He also felt unwell,” adds Ruocco, explaining that “they only called me for some formal procedures. For now there is no provision. They were called here only to try to reconstruct the event,” the lawyer reiterates. “I haven’t had a chance to talk to them. I just said hello to them and they are very upset,” he repeats. Everyone knew about the fights, everyone knew about the children’s crying. Everyone knew about the economic problems. But it arrived too late, even though a sort of “monitoring” of the whole family was underway. And so, in Sant'Egidio del Monte Albino, a little girl of a few months died, eight in a few days. The parents are being investigated for murder: an act that was necessary, investigators explain, to carry out all the necessary tests, first and foremost the autopsy. An investigation is therefore underway to shed light on the little girl's death. Bruises, burn-like abrasions and lesions were found on his body. She arrived in the middle of the night at the hospital in Nocera Inferiore, around 3.30 am, but no one could do anything: she was already dead. The little girl's family was full of problems. At the Nocera Inferiore Police Station, social workers and relatives of the couple were also interviewed. The versions are compared and any discrepancies are analyzed. The autopsy will be performed on Monday. Father Giuseppe Passariello, with several criminal records against him, had recently left a rehabilitation center for drug addicts. He had returned to the Salerno area, where he lived with his wife, his little girl and another two-year-old child. For this reason, the Public Prosecutor's Office of Nocera Inferiore had given the Municipality of Sant'Egidio the mandate to 'monitor' the family for two months. And now among the various things to understand there is also this: if the social services had realized that, as the neighbors say, the two often argued, the woman would have been beaten. However, the mayor says several times that the violence has never been confirmed by a complaint filed by either the woman or any of her family members. The little girl had a health problem with her upper limbs and this, the neighbors always say, made her cry often. Where the little girl lived, on the steps of the house, someone placed a bunch of white flowers. The neighbor shows a photo of him on her cell phone: “Did you see what blue eyes he had? It was a doll.” Last night, she says, “I didn't hear any screams, I woke up when the ambulance arrived, that's all I heard.” But other times he has heard the arguments. In the shops, in the area, many admit it: “Yes, we knew, we all knew that they were living in a difficult situation but we didn't believe it would come to this”. “We were not cowards – they add – we knew that they were being followed by social services, that they were being monitored and we thought that the situation was under control”. But something went wrong in that family and now an eight-month-old baby girl is dead. “Yes, something went wrong and we need to understand what,” admits the mayor. Some in the village seek comfort in this tragedy: “Perhaps God wanted to free her from pain once and for all.”